Accounts Quote by Adam Smith

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always…

— Aristotle

The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is a tide in the affairs of men

— William Shakespeare

Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy…

— William James

Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient in their…

— Aristotle

The public interest may be presumed to be what men would choose if they saw clearly, thought rationally, acted disinterestedly and benevolently.

— Walter Lippmann

... men want recognition of their work, to help them believe in themselves.

— Anonymous

An unstated but crucial premise is that the "responsible men" achieve that exalted status by their service to authentic power, a fact of life…

— Noam Chomsky

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences…

— Isaac Barrow

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

— Ambrose Bierce